Word: disney
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Many of the American travelers are heading south. For ten years running, Florida has remained the most popular state for tourists. One reason: the Disney World amusement park in Orlando, the single most popular destination in the U.S. This year Disney may surpass its record of attracting 22 million visitors. The number of campsites in the area has increased 50% in the past eight months, to a total of 12,000. Disney World has also boosted the number of its hotel rooms 10% in the past year...
...Time Inc.) became the first two cable services to scramble their signals, thus preventing dish owners from watching them without paying a monthly subscription fee. Showtime and the Movie Channel will begin similar scrambling on May 27, and most other satellite-beamed cable channels, including ESPN, MTV, the Disney Channel, Cable News Network and Superstation WTBS, will follow suit before the end of the year. Their actions have set off a heated battle over just who has the right to TV signals bouncing through the skies...
...channels. Subscription fees are what defray the cost of programming, they argue, and it is only fair that dish owners ante up too. "In order for this product to exist, it has to be paid for by those who use it," says Duncan Murray, a vice president of the Disney Channel...
...television's surprise hit, Who's the Boss? More important, Embassy, which was formerly owned by Producers Norman Lear and Jerrold Perenchio, holds syndication rights to such shows as Maude, Sanford & Son, One Day at a Time and The Jeffersons. Mike Mellon, a vice president of research for Walt Disney Productions, estimates the value of Embassy's rights at $500 million...
...about 10% of the company's overall $ 1985 operating income of $1.045 billion. Considering that promising start, no one believes that Coke's Hollywood shopping spree is over. Says Frank Biondi, executive vice president of the company's entertainment division: "We remain, in the vernacular, on the make." Says Disney's Mellon: "Coke wants to take over everybody. The only number they'll be satisfied with...